Volume 17 - Issue 5 - May, 2009
Department
Announcements
05/05/2009
Congratulations!
The staff of the Cardiovascular Radiology Department at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New Hampshire is very proud of their youngest technologist. Mary Alexander, RT(R)(ARRT), who has worked in Frisbie’s cath and...
Congratulations!
The staff of the Cardiovascular Radiology Department at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New Hampshire is very proud of their youngest technologist. Mary Alexander, RT(R)(ARRT), who has worked in Frisbie’s cath and...
Congratulations!
The staff of...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
SICP Section
05/05/2009
SICP Chapter Spotlight: North Carolina Chapter
By Michelle Eggleston with contributions from Chris Jolly
The SICP has several established and developing chapters across the country. Chapters offer networking opportunities and grassroots...
SICP Chapter Spotlight: North Carolina Chapter
By Michelle Eggleston with contributions from Chris Jolly
The SICP has several established and developing chapters across the country. Chapters offer networking opportunities and grassroots...
SICP Chapter Spotlight: North...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
News
Clinical and Industry News
05/05/2009
Action Products, Inc. Recognized in Imaging Study
In a newly published research poster, Action® OR overlays were found to successfully manage patient positional pain during interventional CT procedures lasting 45 minutes or longer, without...
Action Products, Inc. Recognized in Imaging Study
In a newly published research poster, Action® OR overlays were found to successfully manage patient positional pain during interventional CT procedures lasting 45 minutes or longer, without...
Action Products, Inc....
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Continuing Education
05/05/2009
CEUs offered by NACCME, LLC and Cath Lab Digest
FREE! Available on www.naccme.com
All following FREE activities are sponsored by the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education (NACCME).
• Tips and Tricks for Prevention of...
CEUs offered by NACCME, LLC and Cath Lab Digest
FREE! Available on www.naccme.com
All following FREE activities are sponsored by the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education (NACCME).
• Tips and Tricks for Prevention of...
CEUs offered by NACCME, LLC and...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
05/05/2009
HMP Communications, publisher of numerous interventional cardiology resources online and in print, has created a website focusing specifically on ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), based on its successful February 2009 LUMEN...
HMP Communications, publisher of numerous interventional cardiology resources online and in print, has created a website focusing specifically on ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), based on its successful February 2009 LUMEN...
HMP Communications, publisher...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Column
Clinical Editor's Corner
05/05/2009
morton kern, MD
Clinical Editor
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief Cardiology
University of California Irvine
Orange, California
mortonkern005@hotmail.com
morton kern, MD
Clinical Editor
Profe...
My interventional cardiology recertification is due this year. To fulfill my American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) requirements of training, practice and didactic material, I need 100 self-evaluation points obtained from practice...
My interventional cardiology recertification is due this year. To fulfill my American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) requirements of training, practice and didactic material, I need 100 self-evaluation points obtained from practice...
My interventional cardiology...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Expert
05/05/2009
A commentary from Boston Scientific Corporation
After two years of intense debate in the interventional cardiology community, drug-eluting stents (DES) saw more and more positive clinical data and began the process of restoring confidence in...
A commentary from Boston Scientific Corporation
After two years of intense debate in the interventional cardiology community, drug-eluting stents (DES) saw more and more positive clinical data and began the process of restoring confidence in...
A commentary from Boston...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Clinical Instructor
05/05/2009
Questions are answered by: Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
Todd is the Cardiology Manager for Memorial Hermann Southeast in
Houston, Texas. He also teaches an online RCIS Review course for Spokane Community College, in Spokane, Washington, and regularly presents with RCIS Review Courses.
Questions are answered by: Todd Ginap...
“We had a patient that came to the cath lab with a non-ST-elevation MI. The patient had been in the ICU overnight before coming to the cath lab. The physician stated that the troponin levels were rising. I’m not really sure what that...
“We had a patient that came to the cath lab with a non-ST-elevation MI. The patient had been in the ICU overnight before coming to the cath lab. The physician stated that the troponin levels were rising. I’m not really sure what that...
“We had a patient that came to...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
What Do You Think?
05/05/2009
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
New Questions!
Medications & Sterile Field
What is the practice of placing medications on the sterile field. ...
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
New Questions!
Medications & Sterile Field
What is the practice of placing medications on the sterile field. ...
Multiple new and ongoing...
05/05/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Insights
10-Minute Interview
05/05/2009
AnnMarie Russart, BS, AASCardiovascular
Technology, RCIS
Community Memorial Hospital
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
AnnMarie Russart, BS, AASCardiovascul...
Upon graduating from the cardiovascular technology program at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) in Milwaukee, WI in 2002, I began my cath lab career working in the Heart and Vascular Center at SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford, IL. I...
Upon graduating from the cardiovascular technology program at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) in Milwaukee, WI in 2002, I began my cath lab career working in the Heart and Vascular Center at SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford, IL. I...
Upon graduating from the...
05/05/2009
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